They have arrived!

[pfcarquejo]

Hello Everybody

Our new Amazon parrots have arrived. We don’t really know for sure if they are a couple, since the Laboratories where the breeder send the samples suddenly closed, after waitind for almost 3 weeks (Have you ever hear of Exon Biotecnologia in Brazil?). The breeder was sending new samples to another laboratory, also in Brazil, but we didn’t wanted to wait another 3 weeks and we brought home this two babies. According to the breeder’s “feeling”, they are a couple….but Lolita’s breeder also said she was a male, and then she turned out to be a female..LOL! I am now in contact with a British Laboratorie, and I am sending them feather samples as soon as I get the collecting Kits.

Here you have the first photos, taken last Monday, the day they arrived:

 

Wish us luck!

Best regards

Paulo C.

Edited July 15, 2010 by pfcarquejo

[Luvparrots]

They are lovely little babies Paulo! I can't wait to hear more about them and watch them flourish!

[Loki'sMinion]

Absolutely beautiful. Can't wait to hear all the stories about the mischief they get into as they grow up

[Jayd]

Thank you so much, what beautiful baby's so sweet. Please tell us all you can about you and your new fids, we have so many people on this forum who love and are interested in Amazons....Thank you Jayd

[judygram]

Those are some gorgeous amazons, simply breathtaking colors, wow you have your work cut out for you, thanks for sharing a couple of pics of them with us, can't wait to hear more.

[pfcarquejo]

Some more pics

[Georgiesmum]

lovely pic's

[Yossi]

Congratulations on the new additions. Handsome couple of birds and I'm sure they will bring you much joy!

[pfcarquejo]

Hi,

We collected today some feathers from our “two stooges” and we are mailling them today to the UK for DNA Sexing. We wish they are a male and a female, but only God knows what they are…LOL!!!

[judygram]

I know what they are, they are gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous and you take very good pictures as you can see every little detail, very nice pictures of very nice looking amazons, thanks so much for sharing them with us.

[pfcarquejo]

And now broadcasting online:

http://pfcarquejo.camstreams.com/

[Yossi]

Ooh parrot cams are fun! Thanks!

[pfcarquejo]

The DNA sex test results will be available this evening or during the weekend. Soon we will know if they are a Boy and a Girl, Two Boys or Two Girls let´s hope for the first, so that we don´t have to change their names

The Web cam is still available: http://pfcarquejo.camstreams.com/

[pfcarquejo]

As I said in another thread, we were having a few problems with one of our Amazons (the ‘male’). He is not found of contact with our hands, and feeding time was not a good thing. He refused all kinds of feeding ways, and the only way we could get him to eat was with a probe. In fact, this is the way the breeder fed them (he had 120 baby bird being hand fed at the same time, between amazons coKatooo, Macaws, and so on).

I think the ‘male’ had some kind of trauma with feeding time, and that was becoming a serious problem to us.

Last Saturday we reduced the feeding to one time a day, and that made some change in his behavior. Yesterday we had a good progress and we managed to give him some food without using the probe. We also managed to get him to approach our hands voluntarily to get some peeled sunflower seeds.

The female is completely different. She is far easy to feed, as you can see on this video:

And Yesterday she started to fly to us on calling.

I think we are in the right path now, and as we are starting our holydays next week, I hope more progress will be made

Edited August 2, 2010 by pfcarquejo

[GoDiego]

Cute video pfcarquejo, I also have been having problems with Diego eating who I think was weaned to early. I have a question about the DNA laboratory in England, how much was it and how quickly was it done for you? The breeder of Diego said that he was a male, but after a couple of other things he said about Diego, I'm starting to not trust everything he has said. I was also thinking about getting a test done to see if he really is a boy.

[pfcarquejo]

HI,

Wich country are you from? I used to get the DNA sex testing (I have other birds) in Brazil. It was much cheaper, and what ised to take longer was the mail to arrive in Brazil, because the laboratory did the tests in 24 hours. However this laboratory in Brazil closed last July, and I had to find another laboratory. There are other 2 laboratories, but I didn’t know them, and since I was a little hurry, I thought in England it would be faster, in spite the 14 £ they charge.

However it toke a week only for the mail to arrive there, and it arrived last Tuesday and until now I still don’t have the results.

If you are in the U.S., I am sure you have laboratories there who would do the tests much faster.

Regards

[GoDiego]

I live in Spain but originally from England. I'll have a look around for some laboratories here, also now I can compare their prices compared the UK. Thanks for the info

[pfcarquejo]

When I was looking for alternatives, I found at least one laboratory in Spain. I didn´t kept the link to their page, but since i found them in the internet, I am sure you will find them too. At the time there were a few things i didn't liked, and I had good references of the UK lab. But since you are in Spain, I guess it would be better for you to use a Spanish Laboratory.

 

Best regards

[pfcarquejo]

Well....the results have arrived....we have two females

[GoDiego]

Going by the sad face emote your not pleased. Were they to breed from in the future? Look on the bright side, female amazons are supposed to be more cuddly and slightly less hormonal. Plus male or female both of your new babies are both beautiful and I am sure will give you just as much joy as if they were a couple.

 

Did you name them? We were told that Diego is a male, but to be honest I'm not sure how the breeder decided this as he had not done a DNA test. We're talking about getting the DNA test done so Diego may have to be changed to Diega lol.

[Tweedle]

I'm sure your vets in Spain would have access to a lab that could run the test for you. Or else, when I worked in the Middle East, we used to send samples back to a UK lab for testing.

[pfcarquejo]

Hello people!

[Luvparrots]

The certainly are beautiful little ladies!!!

[GoDiego]

They are beautiful! How old are they now?

[pfcarquejo]

They are beautiful! How old are they now?

They are 3 and a half months old. They are beggining to say their fisrt words now . "Olá" (Hello), "Aurora" (the name of one of them) and other words not quite 'understandable'...LOL!! 'Juju' is the one that shows more ability to speak, but 'Aurora' is much more friendly.